Glossary
…& Politics Constitution Act, 1982 Section 35 Constitution Express Cultural Production of the Northwest Coast Culture Enfranchisement George Manuel Global Actions Global Indigenous Issues Governance and Land Claims Government Policy…
Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
…case regarding 162 acres of Musqueam lands that had been leased to a Vancouver golf club in 1958. The Musqueam went to trial after discovering that the lands had been…
Welcome to Indigenous Foundations
…Residential Schools. On November 1, 2011 the UBC First Nations House of Learning, in collaboration with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, hosted a day-long event addressing the history and…
Berger Inquiry
…First Nations leaders who were involved in the earliest Indigenous rights cases heard in Canadian courts. Vancouver lawyer Thomas Berger, a graduate of UBC, was a key figure in two…
About Jordan Bennett
…and interactive performance spaces, I aim to form an atmosphere where traditional meets contemporary, shifting preconceived notions on an object or an actions original function or intent. Official website http://www.jordanbennett.ca…
Bill C-31
…Nations Human Rights Committee. Lovelace, a Maliseet woman from Tobique in New Brunswick, had married an American man and moved away from her reserve community. When the marriage ended some…
Culture
First Nations of British Columbia. Click to enlarge. Reproduced courtesy of the Museum of Anthropology, University of B.C., Vancouver. Aboriginal groups across what is now Canada each have their…
About Nikamowin (Song)
…Manitoba. Swampy Cree is our dialect. I was raised there, but am currently living in Winnipeg, after an eleven year hiatus in Vancouver, BC. When creating a new piece, which…
Mapping Tool: Kitsilano Reserve
…the entire reserve had been sold off. In 2002, the Squamish Nation regained a small section of the earlier reserve: today’s Kitsilano Indian reserve No. 6. The following chronology…
Calder Case
…at one point, it had since been extinguished by virtue of Confederation and colonial control over the land. Three other judges affirmed the Nisga’a’s Aboriginal title, arguing that it had…
